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The Woodlands Lodge Hotel - New Forest country house hotel with restaurant, function and conference facilities. Profile, photo gallery and tariff.
Colbury and Ashurst Theatrical Society - Community theatre producing plays, pantomimes and musicals. Site includes information on current and past productions, history, membership information, and links to scripts.
Longdown Activity Farm - A family run farm bringing the farm experience to visitors. Includes directions and how to get there, birthday party information, prices, activities for adults and children, tractor rides and play areas.
I like two kinds of men: domestic and foreign. -- Mae West In the sciences, we are now uniquely privileged to sit side by side with the giants on whose shoulders we stand. -- Gerald Holton Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility. -- Dietrich Bonhoeffer A straight line is the shortest in morals as in mathematics. -- Maria Edgeworth "I have no special gift; I am only passionately curious." (Albert Einstein) Ashurst Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress. -- Gandhi Cute little babies that fall out of swings - These are a few of my favourite things. -- Oscar Hammerstein, working lyric for a piece from "The Sound of Music" "Most people don't realize that large pieces of coral, which have been painted brown and attached to the skull by common wood screws, can make a child look like a deer." (Jack Handey) Ashurst The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to contact us. -- Bill Watterson, in his comic strip Calvin and Hobbes Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art. -- Tom Stoppard When you're experimenting you have to try so many things before you choose what you want, and you may go days getting nothing but exhaustion. -- Fred Astaire Reading computer manuals without the hardware is a frustrating as reading sex manuals without the software. -- Arthur C. Clarke Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months. -- Oscar Wilde Ashurst Whoever controls the media--the images--controls the culture. -- Allen Ginsberg If a politician found he had cannibals among his constituents, he would promise them missionaries for dinner. -- H. L. Mencken Love is not blind - it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less. Rabbi Julius Gordon Ashurst There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in his home. -- Kenneth H. Olson, President of DEC, Convention of the World Future Society, 1977 Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person. -- Mark Twain They have come up with a perfect understanding. He won't try to run her life, and he won't try to run his, either. -- Anonymous What does not kill me makes me stronger. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "Bread feeds the body, indeed, but flowers feed also the soul." (The Prophet Mohammad) Ashurst Suicide is belated acquiescence in the opinion of one's wife's relatives. Most convicted felons are just people who were not taken to museums or Broadway musicals as children. -- Libby Gelman-Waxner It is a known fact that men are practical, hardheaded realists, in contrast to women, who are romantic dreamers and actually believe that estrogenic skin cream must do something or they couldn't cha Ashurst When a thing has been said and said well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it. -- Anatole France "We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then is not an act but a habit." (Aristotle) If a thing is worth doing at all, it is worth doing badly. -- Gustav Holst, on amateur music-making As for the virtuous poor, one can pity them, of course, but one cannot possibly admire them. -- Oscar Wilde I never hated a man enough to give him his diamonds back. -- Zsa Zsa Gabor Ashurst The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the marvelous str The true spirit of conversation consists in building on another man's observation, not overturning it. -- Edward Bulwer-Lytton "When once you have tasted flight you will always walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward: for there you have been and there you will always be." (Henry Van Dyke) Ashurst Love may be a dream but marriage is a nightmare. -- Joan Collins "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there. -- Will Rogers "Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance, or a stranger." (Franklin P. Jones) When you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite. - Sir Winston Churchill Ashurst A man can't be too careful in the choice of his enemies. - Oscar Wilde Losing a wife can be hard. In my case, it was almost impossible. I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about 'short' and 'cheap'? -- Phyllis Diller Ashurst Distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes. - Henry David Thoreau "The market is not an invention of capitalism. It has existed for centuries. It is an invention of civilization." (Mikhail Gorbachev, June 8, 1990) A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage. Every day sends to their graves obscure men whom timidity prevented from making a first effort. -- Sydney Smith If I tell a lie it's only because I think I'm telling the truth. -- Phil Gaglardi, Minister of Highways, British Columbia, Canada For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed. -- Clifton Fadiman Ashurst Sure, it's going to kill a lot of people, but they may be dying of something else anyway. -- Othal Brand, member of a Texas pesticide review board We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbour. -- G. K. Chesterton We all agree that your theory is crazy, but is it crazy enough? - Niels Bohr Ashurst I was a pilot flying an airplane and it just so happened that where I was flying made what I was doing spying. -- Francis Gary Power, U-2 reconnaissance pilot held by the Soviets for spying, in an i "A man is only as faithful as his opportunity." (Chris Rock) A government is the only known vessel that leaks from the top. -- James Reston A grouch escapes so many little annoyances that it almost pays to be one. -- Kin Hubbard Cricket is best described as organised loafing. -- Anonymous British Radio Broadcaster, 1996 Ashurst Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the gentleman. -- Herbert Spencer If you can't sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there and worrying. It's the worry that gets you, not the loss of sleep. -- Dale Carnegie When a man takes an oath, Meg, he's holding his ownself in his own hands. Like water. And if he opens his fingers then- he needn't hope to find himself again. -- Robert Bolt from A Man For All Seas Ashurst I prefer the wicked rather than the foolish. The wicked sometimes rest. -- Alexandre Dumas pere Blessed are the young for they shall inherit the national debt. -- Herbert Hoover I'm not dumb, I just have a command of thoroughly useless information. -- Calvin For the majority of People, smoking has a beneficial effect. -- Dr. Ian G. Macdonald, Los Angeles surgeon, quoted in Newsweek , Nov.18th 1963. Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences. -- Isadora Duncan Ashurst Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever. - Napoleon Bonaparte "If man could be crossed with the cat, it would improve man but deteriorate the cat." (Mark Twain) I must follow the people. Am I not their leader? -- Benjamin Disraeli Ashurst Giving a man space is like giving a dog a computer: the chances are he will not use it wisely. -- Bette-Jane Raphael Familiarity breeds contempt -- and children. -- Mark Twain Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction. -- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration. -- D. H. Lawrence "The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize." (Robert Hughes) Ashurst In times of profound change, the learners inherit the earth, while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists. -- Al Rogers, Global SchoolHouse Netw Always go to the bathroom when you have a chance. -- King George V And life is what we make it. Always has been, always will be. -- Grandma Moses Ashurst He who laughs last is generally the last to get the joke. -- Terry Cohen Eternal boyhood is the dream of a depressing percentage of American males, and the locker room is the temple where they worship arrested development. -- Russell Baker "Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Don't stay in bed, unless you can make money in bed. - George Burns Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending. -- Anonymous Ashurst The person who is slowest in making a promise is most faithful in its performance. -- Jean-Jacques Rousseau Joint Checking Account: a handly little device which permits my wife to beat me to the draw. A beauty is a woman you notice; A charmer is one who notices you. -- Adlai Stevenson Ashurst No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in love with him first. -- Cesare Pavese Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street. - Elbert Hubbard "The easiest kind of relationship is with ten thousand people, the hardest is with one." (Joan Baez) I still say a church steeple with a lightning rod on top shows a lack of confidence. -- Doug MacLeod "Transport of the mails, transport of the human voice, transport of flickering pictures--in this century as in others our highest accomplishments still have the single aim of bringing men together." Ashurst When you see what some girls marry, you realize how they must hate to work for a living. -- Helen Rowland Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get money from it. -- Stephen Leacock The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment. -- Robert Hutchins, Great Books, 1954 Ashurst
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